Program Manager ( Intelligence Support)Leidos
Description
Program Manager – Intelligence Support
Location: Fort Meade, MD
Clearance Required: Current Top Secret/SCI (TS/SCI)
Leidos is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead a large, diverse team supporting critical Counterintelligence (CI), Counterterrorism (CT), and HUMINT missions at Fort Meade.
This role oversees a broad intelligence support scope, including analytical operations, cyber and forensics support, technology protection, and advanced computer science functions that directly enable national‑level investigations and mission success.
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of 100+ personnel across multiple locations, ensuring seamless support to CI, CT, and HUMINT mission partners.
- Oversee intelligence, analytical, cyber, forensics, technology protection, and computer science functions supporting investigative and operational requirements.
- Manage all aspects of program performance, including cost, schedule, risk, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with customer expectations and mission priorities.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with government customers, mission partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure effective utilization of system resources, production schedules, and workflow processes.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks while driving continuous improvement across operations.
- Coordinate solutions to production‑related challenges, ensuring timely and accurate resolution.
- Provide executive‑level reporting, briefings, and decision support to senior leadership.
Required Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP) – Active and current.
Education Requirements
Option 1:
- Bachelor’s degree in Intelligence, Business, or related field
- 14+ years of relevant and combined management experience, with at least 2 years occurring within the last 2 years
Option 2:
- Master’s degree in Intelligence, Business, or related field
- 12+ years of relevant and combined management experience, with at least 2 years occurring within the last 2 years
Experience Requirements
- Proven experience managing large programs (100+ personnel) across multiple geographic locations and mission areas.
- Demonstrated experience supporting the Department of Defense or Intelligence Community, performing program or project management for complex, multi‑disciplinary efforts.
- Strong background in coordinating mission support across CI, CT, HUMINT, cyber, and analytical domains.
Preferred Experience/ Education:
- Prior work as an intelligence analyst within the DoD or IC
- HUMINT collection experience
- Counterintelligence investigations or operations experience
- Graduate of an intelligence analysis course
- HUMINT collection course graduate
- Counterintelligence Special Agent credentials
Why Join Leidos?
This is a high‑impact leadership role supporting some of the nation’s most sensitive and mission‑critical intelligence operations. You will shape program strategy, guide a talented workforce, and directly influence national security outcomes
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
March 30, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
